Matt:  Do you know what?

Atara:  What?

Matt:  Alicia laughs at everything.

Atara: Yeah?

Matt:  Yeah!  If her and me and a bunch of other guys played football, and she was in someone’s way, they would tackle her, grab the football, and run.  And Alicia, she would just laugh!  She’d be like: heeheeheeheehee! And then she would just sit there on the football field and cry!

Alicia:  Yeah, I probably would.

Ben W:  What is my brother doing out there sitting cross-legged in the middle of the parkinglot?

me:  O_o  Wow… what is he doing?

Ben:  How should I know.

me:  Probably trying to get run over.

Ben: *shrugs*

me:  Actually, he’s probably waiting out there for someone to go out and ask him what he’s doing.  *pause* Well, I’m not gonna ask him!

Ben:  Well me neither!

David: *puts ducktape in Matt’s hat*

Atara: *removes ducktape*

David:  *smacks her*  Put that back!

Atara:  You should NEVER smack a girl!

David:  I didn’t smack you, I slapped you!  Now put that ducktape back!

Atara: *refuses*

David: *grabs ducktape and puts it back in hat*

me:  *challenges*

Ben W:  (he was another captain, so he had to say something!)  Yeah… I think she’s right.  It was just, you know, pronunciation difficulties.

me:  *tries not to laugh*

*we win challenge*

*quiz ends*

*we go out*

Ben:  ^_^  We’re AWESOME!!!!

Mom:  Humble too.

me:  Hey, at least we’re honest.  Ben, remember at Districts when everyone else said they were fine and WE said that we were tired?

Ben:  *laughs hysterically*

Mom:  OK.  Awesome and honest.  And humble.

Ben and me:  Yep!

Mr. S:  Well then, let’s start the quiz!

Quizzer-Who-Shall-Remain-Nameless:  *gets ready to go close the door*

Mr. S:  Since no one’s being very loud, we’ll just leave the door open if that’s OK with everyone.

everyone:  OK!

QWSRN:  Actually, if it’s ok with you, can I go close the door?  Because I can’t concentrate if the door is opened!

everyone:  *laughs*

Mr. S:  OK! *laughs again*

QWSRN:  *closes door*

David:  I will cut out your tongues with a plastic spoon!

Alicia and me:  He’s nasty!

Mr. G:  Pardon me?

me:  We were just saying how nasty your son is.

Mr. G:  Hey!  Watch it!  That’s my favorite son!

Alicia:  *thinks*  Well, he’s my least favorite of your sons.

May I point out that he is Mr. G’s ONLY son?

Pastor B:  *as I was quite frustrated with myself*  If you don’t get one right this next quiz, you will have to drink a cup of coffee.  Now there’s motivation for you.

me:  *gets one right on the next quiz*  Yay!  Now I don’t have to drink a cup of coffee!

Molly:  How’re you?

me:  OK, how’re you?

Molly:  Fine, how are you?

me:  Uh… fine.

Sarah (Molly’s sister):  Molly, you already just ASKED her that!

Molly:  Oops.  Sorry.  I’m a little zoned out.

me:  I’m nervous!

Alicia:  OK.  Calm down!!

me:  If I fall out of the seat, I will hit my head on the pew! (like I’ve ever fallen out of my seat!!)

Alicia:  CALM DOWN!!!!!

me:  Now Josh, Antion said I could smack you.  But I won’t – unless you jump and don’t know the answer and say 42.  Then I will smack you.

Josh:  *laughs*  Can you imagine what Antion would do to me if I was on his team at a tournament and said 42?

me:  Do you have a funeral hymn picked?

Matt:  If I grabbed a knife and plunged it into my knee, I would cry.  I mean, I would bawl!  I would just sit there and BAWL!  I would cry my eyes out!

Atara:  Wow, that would be a sight!  Matt with no eyes!

Matt:  *laughs hysterically*

*when I was making ducktape bracelets (orange) for all the girls in my pew*

Abbey:  On my left hand, please.  *holds out hand*

Anna:  That’s your RIGHT hand!

Abbey:  Oh.  Sorry.  Yeah.  I meant right.  I do that when I’m driving, too.  I’ll say, “Turn right” and Antion says “That’s LEFT” and I’m like “Oops, yeah.  Well, that’s what I meant!”  Good thing I didn’t do that at my driving test!

Mr. G:  And that would be a quiz-out for… Jessica.

Jessica:  *confused look*  I didn’t quiz out!

Mr. G:  Oops… sorry, I had her mixed up with someone else. 

Mr. K:  Jessica!  You should NEVER turn down a quiz-out!

someone else:  Hey, she was honest.

everyone else:  Yeah!  Good job, Jessica!

Mr. K:  *heavy sigh*  Oh yeah… I guess I should be promoting honesty too, huh?  That’s what the next quiz will be on.  Anyway, good job Jessica!

Mr. K:  I think I am about to award you guys the rowdiest bunch of quizzers award.

It’s true.  My team, and another team from our church and one other team was in there when he said that, and we were being CRAZY!!  I don’t know why, and I never remember seeing quizzers being so LOUD before!  Everyone was just cracking jokes and laughing continuously!

me:  Where’s Ryan?

Johnny D: (my captain at Districts) He’s at a CROSS-COUNTRY meet.

Mrs. U:  Johnny, that’s OK.

Johnny:  I know.

me:  He just doesn’t think it’s OK to miss a quiz for.

Johnny:  Well, I used to do cross-country, but I would NEVER miss a quiz meet for cross-country.

me:  What COULD you miss a quiz for?  If you were in the hospital, then would it be OK to miss a quiz?

Johnny:  If you were in the hospital, then you could miss a quiz.  Or if someone in your family died, and you had to be at the funeral, then you could miss a quiz.

Mrs. U:  What about if your family was on vacation?  Would it be OK to miss a quiz then?

Johnny:  Uh… I would never miss a quiz.  The only thing I’ll miss is a tournament.  I will miss a tournament.

me:  That’s only because you aren’t old enough to drive!

OK... yeah... about Johnny... we really did not get along incredibly well last year (because we didn't know each other) or at Districts (because he's REALLY all about quizzing, and for me it's mainly fun) but yesterday we were hanging out and having a grand time!  Funny, isn't that?  And what really got me was in our last quiz, my team was against his team -- he kept signaling to me when to jump, as if he was my captain!!   And holding fingers up to encourage me on how many more questions I needed for optimal points! 

*laughs*

So it was fun.

Oh, and the final story... which I'll tell just because I have such an incredible ego...

  I love Quizzing!  

"I wasn't listening... oh... expecting to get something from them?"

"Yep.  Hey, pretty good for not paying attention!"

"Hey!  I didn't even get to the wall!"

*holds up 4 fingers*

"no, it's in chapter 2."

"Oh.  Right."

"Oh!  What is it!  I know where it is on the page.  Veon, don't you hate when you know exactly where it is and you have no idea what it says?"

"Yep."

"I am not going to go play volleyball.  Because even if I don't get killed playing, my team will kill me when we're done because I'm such a terrible player."

*I begin to venture out to the other side of the gym*

Jenn: *right in my ear* "ATTACK!"

me: *leans back*  *ball goes zipping past my face*  *decides not to venture out after all*

Melissa:  "It is very dangerous out there."

me:  *agrees* 

*reading teams* "And Anna and Abbey..."

Anna: *screams in Abbey's ear*

Abbey:  "ooowww..." *covers ear*

"And if he makes too many errors, smack him." 

"You'll be fine as long as you take a bottle of superglue and put it on his seat so that he can't jump."

"Did you want to repeat that?  I mean, really, did you?  Since you have to live on my team the rest of the year?" 

Can you tell that they announced teams today?  Yeah... although they aren't official yet. 

*bounce bounce*

I'm officially a Captain this year.  Last year (being my first year and all) I ended up captain-ing most of the meets as our Captain missed about five of eight quizzes.  So I do have lots of experience.  ^_^

And... of course while Mom and Dad are out (romantic date to Wal*Mart or something) Hyarion comes down complaining that his stomach hurts.

So I told him to go lay down.  *sigh*

I really, really hope that he doesn't get sick.  I don't want that kind of "experience".  But thanks all the same!

Goodnight!

everyone keeps tabs on who's walking at what track, the Senior High one or the college one...

you think it's a real thrill to "jump" the shopping cart up onto the sidewalk at Wal*Mart...

OK, I know there are plenty more things out there, so submit a few.

I realized that something great about living in a college town, is watching the students at Wal*Mart every year to determine what the straight out weirdest thing I see them do is.

In 2004, this guy came up to Mom and me while we were in produce.  "Ma'am," says he, quite politely, "can you tell me how I will know if a honeydew is ripe?"

me:  *tries not to laugh*

Mom:  Um... just smell it.

him:  *tries smelling it*  It actually doesn't seem to smell.  *picks up a cantalope*  How about cantalope?

Mom:  Same thing.  You just have to kind of feel them, and if they're not hard and not squishy and... oh, just see if it feels ripe.

guy:  Uh... thanks.

I have since wondered if he boldly bought a honeydew, or if he went over a row and got a gallon of ice cream.  ^_^

In 2005, I noticed a group of about three guys walking around.  One of them was swinging a wire wisk.  Apparently, he decided that he could do very well without it, thank you very much, and flung it across the floor.

It wasn't even as if he was angry, he just sort of went, "oh, nevermind, I don't want this," and cast it upon the floor.

Sir?  Do you notice those things which are flat and parallel to the floor with many things for sale on them?  They are called shelves.  If you find something and then decide that you don't want it, you should put it on a shelf.  Preferrably in the same spot you got it from, but at least ON a SHELF!

I certainly hope he wasn't majoring in public relations, or anything.

And then the beginning of this year came and went, and the most interesting things I had seen/heard were guys being confused about cereal, and girls racing down an aisle.  But neither of those were really too weird. 

That all changed about a week ago when Mom and I were at Wal*Mart at night.

Three guys were in our aisle, and I was paying them no special attention.  Little did I know that they were going to give me my Odd Student Story of the year.  ^_^

All of a sudden, we heard the one guy practically shriek:

"Oh my *edit*!  Look at this, man!"

other guy:  "WOWWWW!!!"

first guy:  "It is lard!"

other guy:  "It is TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS of LARD!!!"

They then went on for a minute or two, marvelling over the 25-pound bucket of lard.

Granted, it is a lot of lard.

But, uh... it really didn't seem that note-worthy to me. 

Goodnight!

and I am on the computer. 

No, this is not a post about how my father has suddenly turned into Flat Stanley.

No, this is not a post about prepositions.

It is a post of quotes from youth group/Quizzing, of course!

"We can do this."

"*cough* Third person bonus!*cough*"

"Wow, that was subtle."

"Everyone, clap your hands!"

"It burns calories!"

"Are you a smart person who knows how to do Physics?"

(Apologies to Mahtaliel, because she's going to be hearing this one again...)

Pastor B:  I do not have --

me:  *jumps without moving*  Wow... uh... I didn't mean to jump...   I've never jumped that way before... I do not have any idea what the answer is?

Pastor B:  Just try it. 

me: Uhh...

*notices Antion humming*

*decides that since he is on my team, he is probably trying to hum something helpful, not to annoy me*

*KNOWS there is nothing in Acts 3 about humming*

OOOOOHH!  I do not have silver or gold!

Pastor B:  Right.

*Antion, Samwise and I begin singing "Silver or gold I have none, but such as I have give I thee..."*

Antion:  Except that's KJV

Pastor B:  *looking impressed*  Antion, you could have sat there humming that all day and I never would have guessed what you were talking about.

Sunday school songs are GOOD stuff.

And then:

me:  "WHY did you just give me that look?"

Antion:  "I wasn't giving you "that look"."

me:  "Yes, you were."

Antion:  "I was just going like this  kinda zoning out."

me:  "Feeling like you're in France?"

him:  "Whaat?"

me:  "Feeling like you're in France?"

him:  "Oh yeah.  I definitely feel like I'm in France."

me:  "WHY did you just say that?  Now I have to email you, which means I have to change my signature line!"

him:  "Well, why did you think that I said that?"  *evil grin*

me:  "But you don't have to reply--"

him:  "Hey, I've been keeping up on it!"

me:  "--until next Thursday."

him:  "I have been getting back to emails."

me:  "Yep, first Thursday of every month you email me about three times."

him:  "Hahaha."

I think that we are very weird.  ^_^

And as a last note, it bugs me when people wear long sleeved tops and shorts.  It looks unbalanced!!

Goodnight!

Abigail: Would you like the Grand Tour of the House?

me:  Oh yes please.

Abigail:   Now, what order SHALL we do it in?  Bottom to top or top to bottom?

me:  Well, we're AT the bottom, so we may as well go bottom to top.

Abigail:  Oh right, yes.  Well this is the foyer, and this is the schoolroom --

Emma:  Where we do school.

Abigail: -- and this is the dining room--

Emma:  Where we dine.

You can imagine the rest of the tour. 

*talking of a mutual acquaintance*

Andrew: ...I didn't see him around much last semester.  He wasn't in my Greek class for that semester.

me:  Oh.  *realizes a minute later*  He was in England last semester.

Andrew:  That's probably why he wasn't in my class.

me:  It's probably why you didn't see much of him, either.    

Ataralasse:  Zach, are you coming to the youth rally?

Zach:  WHAT youth rally?

me:  *throws shoe at Nathaniel*

Nathaniel:  *kicks shoe back at me without flinching*

me:  I KNEW that I could throw that at you, and it wouldn't be a problem.  Most guys I know would probably get hit by it, and then I'd feel bad. 

After I said that I'm hoping to go to China, and that should improve my Chinese...

Andrew:  I'm hoping to go to Scotland my senior year.  To brush up on my English.

Dr. C:  Pardon me?  Did you just say that you want to go to Scotland to brush up on your ENGLISH?

Elizabeth:  Katie, you may as well lay off with that weapon.  It really doesn't seem to be making much of an impression. 

*Katie stops banging Nathaniel with pillow*

Atanvarne:  Andrew, make your face.

Andrew:  What face?

Atanvarne:  YOU know.

Andrew:  Oh, THAT face!  *makes face*

Atanvarne:  *sighs*  Oh, never mind.  You can't really see his scar on his eyebrow that well.

Andrew:  Is THAT what you wanted to see?  *shows off scar*

Ataralasse:  How'd you get that?  Did Judah do it?

Andrew:  O_o O_o 

Maybe I should explain that Judah and Andrew get along something like this:   or even this:     They're best friends.  *coughs*  *changes subject*

Abigail: Does anyone want a pear?  *brings back four pears*

me:  *takes huge bite*  *tiny dent appears in pear*  Wow!  These are hard!  Like a rock!

Ataralasse:  *takes bite*  Ouch!  These are really hard! 

Atanvarne:  If you don't want it, throw it out the window.

... sure hope no one was standing there... 

*innocent whistle* 

me:  Next year, we'll try to have the guys not pummel you so badly at soccer.

Jesse:  Yeah.  That is NOT happening again.  I'll be faster next year.

me:  O_o  Did I forget to tell you that day that we were actually playing RUGBY?  Oops.

Jesse:  Ah. 

Andrew:  Well, I guess I did manage to start one or two things that year at camp...

me:  Yeah, just like, painting and cheering and awesome SKITS!

Andrew:  *evil grin*

Zach:  I need new shoes.

me:  O_o  *that's random!*

Zach:  These are falling apart.

me:  ...ok...

Zach:  Hey, it's not my fault!

me:  Well, whose fault is it?  Jesse's?

me:  And did you ask him -- oh wait, did I put that in my letter?  I can't remember.  *picks up letter which I sent to Atanvarne and starts reading through it*

Atanvarne:  *indignantly*  EXCUSE ME!!  That's my personal mail!

Andrew:  *lets me look at his Greek New Testament*

me:  I have a Chinese one... and a Russian one... and I had a Spanish one, but I can't find it.

Andrew:  You sound just like the kids in my apartment.  It's like, "Can I borrow a Bible?" and they go digging through their backpacks... "Here's my Greek one... and here's my Hebrew one; and here's my Hawaiian one... Sorry, no English ones today!"

Elizabeth:  You wouldn't believe the things we do to Nathaniel when he's sleeping...

me:  But have you painted his fingernails?

Elizabeth:    Wow...

Nathaniel: 

me:  Whoops... I think Nathaniel is sorry that I came.

Nathaniel:  I'll just lock my door.

Elizabeth:  Do you really think that can keep me out?

me: .. they all think I'm as innocent as anything... 

Mahtaliel:  You mean you aren't?

both of us: 

So innocent.  Right.  *coughs*

*evil grin*

Currently (wishing that I was) Listening to I Wish We All Could Win By The Afters Beautiful Love

“God the Father.”

“Oh, I thought it said FEATHER!”

“According to –”

*jump*

“According to Acts—”

*jump*

“Think Nationals.”

“Actually, think Internationals.”

“Now when you jump, do not jump straight up, ‘cause then you end up leaning back, and it slows you down.  So jump forward.”

“Just fall out of your seat, onto the floor.”

“Yeah, that works.  Actually, it’s really fast.”

Pastor B: “The Mount of Olives.”

Abbey: “I thought you said Mouth.”

Pastor B:  “I thought I said Mount.”

Me:  “I thought you said mouth.”

Josh:  “I heard mouth.”

Pastor B:  “Oh well if you all heard mouth… Narie, would you like to challenge that for Josh?”

Me:  *stands up*  “I’d like to chall—”

Pastor B:  “OK, that’s accepted.”

"Man, Anna, you like the gory questions!"

"You guys are out.  As in sitting out.  No, you can't answer questions!"

"Tomatoes are awesome."

"Abbey's Father... no wait that was last year."

"Guys, it's Abba Father."

me: "... because someone *pointed look at Antion* stole my question!"

Antion:  "Sorry."

me:  "No you're not."

Antion:  "I'm not, actually."

me:  "I KNOW!!!"

later

me: *very dramatically* “Now you know what your fate will be if you steal my questions!”

Antion: *not having been paying attention*  “What?”

me: *tries to work up more drama*  “Now you know what your fate will be if you steal my questions!”

Antion: “Whatever.”

"Two men... dressed in white!"

"Not Johnny Cash."

"Multiple answer, Not for you to know what?"

*kid misses*

Abbey:  *whispers*  "time or dates!"

Pastor B:  "What did you say?"

Abbey:  "I don't know the answer!"

Everyone else:  "You just SAID the answer!"

*she gets panicky* 

*calms down*  "Oh... the time or dates?"

"Wow, that was a really long one.  They'll take thirty seconds to SAY!"

"I think my problem had more to do with me laughing."

"You're gonna have to have these down cold to answer in 30 seconds!

"We want to have them down warm... hot... PASSIONATELY!"

So, Quizzing starts... with a passion.  We're going to need it for this year, as we have 20 chapters! 

spanning two states and over 800 miles. 

"Where's the Borders?  Borders and StarBucks go together like... books and coffee."  ~ me

Spoofing off of the movie Elf:

Ataralasse:  Oh my goodness, a hotel, how wonderful!

me:  I think it has a pool.

Atara:  I'm sorry, what?

me:  I think *starts laughing*  it has a pool.  With water in it.

Atara.  I'm sure it doesn't really have water in it...

Elpinoine:  *looking at hotel and thinking it was ours*  Where'd the other floors go?

Mom:  Uh... they sank underground. 

me:  That happens.

Elpinoine:  UNDERGROUND??

At a mall:

Mom:  What IS that?

me:  Disturbed clothing?

Dad:  How do we get out of here?

Mom: ...well at least we have milk and cookies, so we won't starve!

Conversation between us kids in the car as we were quite bored:

There's a Wal*Mart!

There's a fountain!

Hyarion:  There's a croc!

Elpinoine:  There's a dummy... in a pink shirt!

Hyarion:  Which one was Uncle Ken?

me:  The one with the little beard.

Hyarion:  *indignantly* He said I didn't remember him!

me: ...well, did you?
Hyarion: Uh, no.

me:  *to Ataralasse, quite randomly*  Your eyelashes are all caterwumpus.

her:  O_o

*as we were driving*

*jug of icewater crashes into seat*

me:  That was my head.

Ataralasse and Hyarion:  *laugh hysterically*

me:  The grapes taste like bananas!

Ataralasse:  *makes face*  Did you have to mention that?

Mom:  *reading sign*  Viking Casual Furniture --

me:  -- It's furniture someone took a battle ax to --

Mom:  -- What in the world IS it?

a moment later

Mom:  -- That Viking Casual... what is there?  Viking Formal?  Viking Baroque?

me:  Didn't they just use a pile of skins?

Hyarion:  There's a little lady smoking... never mind.

me:  That guy glared at us, which I have to say, I thought was kinda rude!

Elpinoine to Ataralasse:  Don't call my sister "Bub"!

Ataralasse:  Hey!  It's the guy who's trying to poison us!  (on the Coke machine.  I can't find a picture of it right now, but there is a guy holding out a bottle of coke and he has a really evil grin.)

*playing a Guess Who game*

Elpinoine:  Ooh, I have one!  I have a good one!

Hyarion:  We give up.  My turn!

Mom:  *looking at warning label in hotel*  Do not hang clothes on the sprinkler?  What, in case you're 12 feet tall?

Dad:  I could hang them on the fan to air dry them!

Hyarion:  *quite confused over relationships*  Are we gonna go to Uncle... Aunt... those people's room?

Uncle Ken:  *during discussion about how men can't multi-task*

I can multi-task, I'll prove it to you now.  A minute ago, I was eating pizza.  And at the SAME TIME, I was thinking about how much I liked the cheese.

me:  That's PART of eating the pizza.

Uncle Ken:  And at the SAME time, I was thinking about how good the olives were!  See?  I was TRI-tasking!

me:  Uh... yeah.

So that's it for quotes for now... I was really happy, the other day at the library I found a book by Tolkien that I had never even heard of before!  It's called Roverandom.  ^_^

Goodnight!

Given the lack of anything BETTER to post about, a few quotes.

"Who has the most credit cards?  No ADULTS!!"

"I have one..."

"Well, one would be the most."

me:  "Uh, do you guys know that there is snake guarding the stairs?"

Andrew and David:  "Yeah."

Andrew:  "He put him there."

David:  "His name is Sebastian."

Andrew:  *gives David weird look*  "Who named him that?"

David:  "Me!"

Andrew:    "Well, I'm renaming him.  And I shall call him... Blank."

David: "Blank?"

Andrew:  "Blank.  Like, Fill In The Blank.  Put Name Here."

me:  *gives them BOTH odd looks and walks off*

Oh yeah, it was a rubber snake. 

"It's not what it is."  ~ Mom talking to Dad about a piece of music. 

And now for a romantic one... I'm not making this up...

"Your lips

"smell like...

"that yellow medicine that I used to take.  I hated it, it smelled awful."  ~ Elpinoine being random yesterday.

"Not just weird... like Trekkies."  *pointed look at Andrew* ~ part from skit, but the *pointed look at Andrew* wasn't, really.

"It was the best skit in the world!"

"Yeah, 'cause I was in it!"

"Yes, Mr. Humble!"

*suddenly remembers something* 

Hyarion's piano teacher asked him the other day if he had ever heard of Norway...

Hyarion:  "The capital is Oslo."

Dad just reminded me, 'cause he asked what I liked best about youth group... we were talking about what we'd all wish for, if we had three wishes... etc, etc, and then talking about how that would line up with what GOD wants for us. 

Antion:  "The perfect woman."

Pastor B:  "Uh... anything in specific?"

Antion:  "Uh... no.  I could be digging myself a VERY DEEP hole if I answered that question."

Other answers to the wishes were telepathy, a skate park in town, a yellow car (it was more specific, but I forget what kind.  *sigh*  I'm like that about cars.)

Oh, the car conversation.

"Just ONE?"

"Yeah, just one.  Until I... um, yeah... how about two?  Or three?  Or..."

More serious answers included knowing how to deal with Kofi Annan, having your will perfectly lined up with God's...

I think it would be really cool to see your own Wonderful Life, so you could know how you had touched other people's lives.  As long, of course, as it was in a good way.  ;)

"And you can read it, and say to your wife..." ~ Mom

me:  *weird look*

Mom:  "Roommate."  ^_^

Boohoo!  No one is emailing me.  *sigh*

*cough*

Dad doesn't seem to think that is anything much to be sad about, but oh well. 

Hyarion had been complaining this evening about being dizzy.  I can't imagine WHY he'd be dizzy... especially after he was in the living room, spinning around and around and around and around... yes he had been complaining about being dizzy before he started, but I'm not sure that spinning really helped.  O_o  Shocking idea, I know.

Oh!  *lightbulb comes on over head*

He was trying to get UN-dizzied. 

OK, now goodnight for real. 

*rubs hands together and grins in evil fashion*

I have more quotes. 

As we were finishing the movie, a guy in the movie kissed a girl's hand.  As she was in love with him  she then stared dreamily at her hand.

"She's flirting at her own hand!" ~ Hyarion.

And earlier in the day, Hyarion for some reason said, "Let not the foul beasts retreat!"  This being a quote from a letter which I received from Atanvarne, who was quoting Haldir on her brother's LOTR computer game.

I was reading a newpaper thingy and saw this:  "Matt is married to his wife Kristina..."  Uh, really?

And at camp, when we were playing assassin, the one counselor was moaning to me and Pastor J, "I'm supposed to kill my own son.  I don't think I can do it."

Pastor J:  *mock sternly*  "Shoot your son!"

me:  "There you have it... your pastor just told you to kill your son."

*hysterical laughter*

She never did, by the way.

Last night at youth group, (I forgot this one) Hy-Eldon came up to me.

him: *looks glum*

me:  "Hullo, Hyarion, how are you?"

him:  "OK, but I'm going back to college on Saturday."

me: 

him:  "So you won't be seeing me again."

me:  "Ever?"

other kid who was standing there:  "Ever."

me:  *brightens*  "But...... I shall email you!"

him:  "Do you have my email?"

me:  "Uh, that's how I've emailed you before..."

him:  "Which one?"

me:  "Your school one....... do you check it?"

him:  "Uh, yeah!  Well... sometimes.  Like, once a week when I'm at school.  Unless I forget.  And then it's more like once a month."

  I now see why I sometimes have trouble contacting him. 

And a few quotes from Fellowship of the Ring:

"There was a terrific splash, and a shout of Whoa! from Frodo.  It appeared that a lot of Pippin's bath had imitated a fountain and leaped on high."

""Still that must be expected,' said Gandalf to himself.  'He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell.  Not to evil, I think.  He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can."

"'Consider well, but not too long,' he said.

'The time of my thought is my own to spend,' answered Dain.

'For the present,' said he..."

"'White!' he sneered.  'It serves as a beginning.  White cloth may be dyed.  The white page can be overwritten; and the white light broken.'

'In which case it is no longer white,' said I..."

"'Once I do get to sleep,' said Sam, 'I shall go on sleeping, whether I roll off or no.  And the less said, the sooner I'll drop off, if you take my meaning.'"  I love Sam!!

And here's the last LOTR quote...

"Frodo bent his head.  'And what do you wish?' he said at last.

That what should be shall be,' she answered."

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For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for wholeness and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.  ~ Jeremiah 29:11

Goodnight!

I have two more "Socially Acceptable" posts in the workings, but I'm getting a bit tired of posting such, er, serious stuff.

So time for a few quotes and conversations. 

Watching movie this afternoon:

"He squealed!" ~Hyarion

"Somebody smack that fly!"  ~Hyarion

Ataralasse:  "I just hit the remote..."

me:  "You just sat on the remote, is what you mean."

Lady in Movie:  "Breminger, what would I do without you!"

me:  "Much better."

Hyarion:  "Everything."

~~~~~Quote about our dishwasher, which hadn't been working properly~~~~

"Well it said sanitized, so if they're covered in gunk at least it's sanitized gunk!"

~~~~Quotes and convos from youth group~~~~

"Get individual rides.  As a group."  ~ Antion

"in the recent future, er, recent past."  ~ Mr. K.

"See, here's what I did..."  ~ Mr. K, giving example of a good way to "confront" someone.

"What [did you do]?"  ~ person who wasn't quite getting that this was an example.

Alicia: "Yeah... the knight in shining armor --"

me:  "-- I can handle the dragon --"

Alicia:  "But that bee?  It's pretty scary!"

me:  "Have you been practicing quizzing lately?"

Antion:  "Yep."

me:  "Are you gonna beat [top quizzer in our district]?

Antion:  "No."

me:  *glare*  "Let's try that again.  Have you been practicing quizzing lately?"

Antion:  "Yep."

me:  "Are you gonna beat [top quizzer in our district]?"

Antion:  *shrugs*  "If you say so."

me:  "You are.  Because you're supposed to beat him and I'm supposed to beat you."

Antion:  "WHAT?!?!"

me:  *repeats myself*

*talking to college students*

Heather:  "So... do you know what creeking is?"

me:  *apologizes* "No."  (Although I had a pretty good guess!)

Heather:  "OK.  It's when a guy from our college gets engaged, all his friends -- guy friends -- take him to the creek and dump him in.  No matter what time of year it is."

me:  "Ooh."

Heather:  "Now Stephen's wasn't that bad, 'cause I saw it, and it was in April.  But I saw one guy get creeked in December, and that was not a pretty sight."

me:  "So... they should say, 'I'd love to marry you... but I can't propose till August.'"

Hy-Eldon:  "No... 'I'd love to propose to you, but my lips are frozen.'"

Heather:  "No, they do it AFTER he proposes."

Hy-Eldon:  "Oh, that's a good thing, 'cause otherwise the ring... I mean, I'd be really annoyed if the ring fell out of my pocket..."

me:  "Uh, guys, there is now a gold ring at the bottom of the creek.  Go find it."

Hy-Eldon:  "And then throw THEM all in."

Hy-Eldon:  *talking about his college*  "So, uh, we have bonfires on the tennis courts."  *looks at Heather*  "Really!"  *looks at me*  "We honestly do! We really, actually do!"  *looks back at Heather.  "Except, we actually don't."

me: 

Hy-Eldon:  "That is... when the security comes around, we don't."

Mr. K.  "So Nusirilio got down to college, and I'm sure he's been studying his books, and found them --"

unidentified person:  "I'm sure he's found the DRUMS!" 

Mr. K.  "Well, if the band they had when we visited was their regular one, they could really use a drummer.  All they had was a congo and about 12 guitars."

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So... I think those are all the quotes I have for now.  By the way, people, Google is an incredible things.  A friend of mine and I had been talking about logs... and I pointed out that he had a long history with logs... and found a picture of him splitting logs when he was 11.  He's 15 now.  Needless to say, he was pretty flipped out.    I think I had found the picture when I was looking for pictures of his sister... anyway.

So long!

And thanks for all the fish!